Growth Data Scientist - Remote & Equity Eligible

Shakepay; United States; Remote; USD 105,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Salary reviews

Health & dental

Remote-friendly Canada

Learning budget

Vacation bonus

Parental leave top-up

Offsites

Job summary

Shakepay is seeking an experienced Senior Data Scientist, Growth to partner with engineering, marketing, and operations. You will identify growth opportunities, design experiments, and build data-driven strategies to optimize acquisition, activation, retention, and monetization across the Canadian user base.

You will lead KPI design, implement advanced analytics, and deliver dashboards and models that influence product decisions and business outcomes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data science, growth analytics, experimentation, or related roles in high-growth environments.
• Strong proficiency in SQL and Python.
• Deep understanding of experimentation, causal inference, statistical analysis, forecasting, and KPI design.
• Strong product and business intuition, with the ability to connect user behavior to company outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Partner with engineers and designers across product squads to improve acquisition, activation, retention, monetization, and customer experience.
• Collaborate with marketing, finance, and operations to uncover growth opportunities and drive better decisions.
• Champion experimentation and decision frameworks to ship and iterate quickly with confidence.
• Define KPIs and success metrics for alignment on outcomes.
• Use statistical analysis, forecasting, and machine learning to understand user behavior and performance.
• Identify high-leverage opportunities through analysis of journeys, funnels, and financials.
• Help shape squad and company priorities with data-informed perspectives.
• Build dashboards, models, and self-serve tools for growth visibility.
• Collaborate with the data team to maintain a shared data layer.

Skills

SQL

Python

Experimentation

Causal inference

Forecasting

KPI design

Cross-functional

Data visualization

Tools

Posthog

Statsig

Amplitude

dbt

Snowflake

Job description

Shakepay is seeking an experienced Senior Data Scientist, Growth to partner with engineering, marketing, and operations. You will identify growth opportunities, design experiments, and build data-driven strategies to optimize acquisition, activation, retention, and monetization across the Canadian user base.

You will lead KPI design, implement advanced analytics, and deliver dashboards and models that influence product decisions and business outcomes.